Planning for Retirement

Finances

Jonathan Pond

Author of The Boomer's Guide to a Great Retirement

Terry Savage

Personal finance columnist for the Chicago Sun Times and best-selling author

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What are you looking forward to in terms of retiring?

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My mom just retired. After 35 years of teaching art she is now designing bathrooms and loving every second of it.

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Is it ever too late to start planning for retirement?

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no, it's never too late...and in my case it won't ever be enough cause I'm over 50. You have to start to ever have anything, and something is better...

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when do you think social security will run out?

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I am a baby boomer, I will be a very young 60 tomorrow. Thanks to Mr. Bush, who we can thank for helping to deplete the SS, where do you think those...

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